Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Renal Cell"

Aim of the scientific analysis is to find biological factors (biomarkers) allowing a prediction of disease progression and a better choice of therapy. After diagnosis the kidney and the tumor will be removed by standard surgery followed by drug therapy. Within surgery remaining tumor tissue will be used for the scientific analysis. In case of disease progression during the drug treatment the drug therapy will be changed. Before therapy change a small tissue sample will be collected for molecular diagnostics. This will be done by puncture through the skin under local anesthesia. Blood samples taken before surgery and at the time of first and second disease progression will also be used for molecular-biological analysis. As there is no clear recommendation for drug therapy after disease progression this study should serve to determine an individual therapy on the basis of the molecular profile and the molecular changes. As the tumor disease changes and developes resistance to drugs, analysis at the time of disease progression shall identify biological factors which will predict a likelihood response to a specific drugs. This shall allow to give the patient an individual therapy.

Radiation therapy has been shown to be very effective at relieving pain caused by bone metastases. However, certain types of cancers such as prostate, breast, kidney, and melanoma can have resistance to radiation, making treatment less successful. Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is a newer form of focused treatment that gives higher doses of radiation without damage to surrounding organs. It often is used to help control and cure disease, but less commonly as a way to palliate and treat symptoms. This study is looking at using SBRT for the purposes of improving pain caused by bone metastases in prostate cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, and melanoma patients. It is theorized that the higher levels of radiation may be able to combat the resistance some tumour cells have to radiotherapy and provide improved pain response to treatment. The investigators are looking to show that SBRT has a role in helping this group of patients deal with painful bone lesions from their cancer without increasing side effects and toxicity from the radiation treatment.

This is a single-arm phase II clinical trial to evaluate the initial efficacy and safety of Sintilimab, a PD-1 Inhibitor, as Second-line Treatment in FH-deficient Renal Cell Carcinoma.

The study designed is to evaluate the safety of Canady Helios™ Cold Plasma Scalpel (CHCPS) in patients with solid tumors with carcinomatosis scheduled to undergo surgical resection for cytoreduction. Patients with stage 4 resectable tumors as decided by a multidisciplinary disease management team may be included if the metastatic disease is non-synchronous (e.g. recurrent colorectal carcinoma with hepatic metastasis amenable for surgical resection).. Plasma is an ionized gas typically generated in high-temperature laboratory conditions. Plasma coagulators are currently used routinely as surgical tools with multiple applications that create temperatures between 37° C to 43°C and cause thermal injury. Earlier studies demonstrated the non-aggressive nature of cold plasma. As evidence accumulates, it is becoming clear that low-temperature cold plasma has an increasing role in biomedical applications.

The aim of this Phase 2 study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of nivolumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody, and ipilimumab, an anti-CTLA-4 antibody, in T1aN0M0 clear-cell RCC patients ineligible for surgical treatment.

A Multicenter Open-Label Single-Arm Multi-Cohort Phase I Study of Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Immunogenicity of BCD-135 (JSC BIOCAD, Russia) in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors

The aim of this Phase I/II study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of dendritic cells (DC) vaccine combined with cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells in patients with renal cell carcinoma. Experimental recombinant adenovirus-transfected DC, which engineered to express MUC1 and Survivin are used for DC-based immunotherapy. Based on the results of our previously performed preclinical study with DC vaccine combined with CIK cells, the investigators plan to perform the clinical trial.

The aim of the study is the evaluation of the ablation efficiency of the percutaneous irreversible electroporation (IRE) as primary ablation therapy of locally confined renal cell carcinoma (≤4cm, see inclusion and exclusion criteria). The ablation success will be proofed by magnet resonance imaging (MRI) and histologically after partial kidney resection or nephrectomy 4 weeks after IRE. Hypotheses: Kidney tumors ≤4cm can be ablated completely by percutaneous IRE. Surrounded structures and renal tissue can be preserved.

A-PREDICT is a study of axitinib in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma unsuitable for nephrectomy (as judged by the treating clinician) to evaluate efficacy, safety, toxicity and changes in biomarkers during therapy. Axitinib will given twice daily by mouth according to tolerability of treatment, for as long as patients are deriving clinical benefit. Blood and tumour tissue samples will be taken prior to and during therapy to evaluate biomarkers of treatment response. The primary clinical objective of this study is to define the activity of axitinib given to patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma unsuitable for nephrectomy.

The primary purpose is to monitor the safety and tolerability and effectiveness of sunitinib malate in the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor among filipino patients in usual clinical practice setting.